Lots of people have concluded that Ghia’s design for the more familiar Type I KG was heavily influenced by Virgil Exner’s Chrysler d’Elegance show car, which Ghia was then building for Chrysler, but could there have been a Chrysler-Ghia link on the Type 3 car as well?

UPDATE: Automotive historian Kit Foster writes to tell us that there was an Exner-Ghia link at work here. Virgil Exner Jr., son of the man credited with designing the 1961 Plymouths, consulted with Ghia on the Type 3 KG. Coincidence, or not?